Ace in the Hole Director: Billy Wilder, Featuring Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Richard Benedi (1951)
Ace in the Hole, also known as The Big Carnival, is a 1951 American Film Noir directed by Billy Wilder and starring Kirk Douglas as a cynical, disgraced reporter who stops at nothing to try to regain a job on a major newspaper. The film co-stars Jan Sterling and features Robert Arthur, Richard Benedict and Porter Hall. The story is a biting examination of the seedy relationship between the press, the news it reports and the manner in which it reports it. The film also shows how a gullible public can be manipulated by the press.
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